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LOL WITH IT: Interview with Adam Carolla
"Well Kimmel didn't come to my house, I went out to the radio station and found him."
LOL WITH IT: Interview with Adam Carolla
Podcaster and television personality Adam Carolla is sitting down with Dennis Prager for a unique event at the Kimmel Center on Saturday. They are going to be doing “an evening with” style sit-down with conversations on a variety of different topics. The 90-minute-show will include an audience Q&A.
If you’re un-familiar with Prager, Carolla says of him, “He’s on the old-school AM radio. I’ve always been a fan of the guy, I get a lot of wisdom from him. I always listened to his radio show, and eventually I [went on it] and we were really good together.”
The event is not a scripted comedy show, but rather a two-man panel discussion. “There are political topics, family, kids, basically anything that comes up. It’s really not very, very strictly formatted. We get into politics, we get into relationships, we get into religion,” says Carolla. He has participated in Dennis Prager’s “Prager University,” an online collection of videos offering short lectures on various topics. Carolla’s topic was luck.
“I would like to convince my kids that they’re unlucky. I don’t want them wasting money buying lottery tickets. What I convey to my kids and I tell myself is, ‘Every time you get on a motorcycle, put on a helmet as if you’re unlucky. Then you can make your own luck.’ People go, ‘What do you mean you’re unlucky? You have a big house and your own business and the number one podcast on iTunes!’ I say, ‘That’s got nothing to do with luck, that’s all me!’ When you go for a job, your resume needs to be twice as good as the other guy’s. And people get frustrated with it. They go, ‘Wait a minute man, if you hadn’t met Jimmy Kimmel, you wouldn’t be famous… Well Kimmel didn’t come to my house, I went out to the radio station and found him.”
For an aperitif going into Saturday night, I asked Carolla which he thought would win in the great race to legalization: gay marriage or marijuana?
“I’d probably rather go with the pot because it probably affects more people. I have friends who are gay. It’s not that you just have to be gay, you have to be gay and want to be married. I know a ton of straight dudes that don’t want to get married. That gets it down to a pretty small sub-set for me. Weed, it seems like it impacts a larger group of people… They’re both kinda halfway there.”
Sat., Oct. 13, 8 p.m., $34.50-$49.50, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.
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